Gosselin: If Dez Bryant misses time, Cowboys will be 'fighting an uphill battle, and I don’t think they can win it'

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SportsDay columnist Rick Gosselin joined Norm Hitzges on KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket this week to talk about the latest Cowboys, Rangers, Mavs and Stars news. Here are some highlights:

On if the team can survive without Dez Bryant:

“I don’t see how. I really don’t see how. They’ve become a Dez Bryant driven passing attack. Miles Austin has kind of gotten pushed off to the corner. They throw the short passes to (Jason) Witten for first downs but when they need the big plays, they’re throwing the ball downfield to Dez. That touchdown the other day was a good example of that. I don’t know what’s happened to Miles Austin. But I do know this team needs Dez Byant and if he’s not there, they’re really fighting an uphill battle, and I don’t think they can win it.”

On if Dez Bryant has arrived at the next level:

“When he’s the feature attraction and he’s getting 12 passes thrown his way and catching nine of them for 130 yards and two touchdowns, yes he’s arrived. But what we’ve got to see is that two or three game slump where defenses decide okay, we’re taking Dez out of it and Dez does not catch five passes and does not have all these yards and does not score a touchdown then we’ll see if the frustration level leads his to do some stupid things, which he’s done in the past. Dez is a great player to have in good times. We still have to see the bad times when he’s not getting the ball.”